Tag: supply chain
Amazon moves into smart TVs – and enterprise cloud hardware
UPDATED While Amazon's 'Prime Day' is grabbing the headlines today (see below), two announcements over the weekend revealed the breadth of the company's ambitions...
US hits button on China trade war – tech at risk
UPDATED In the early hours of this morning, US president Donald Trump pushed the button on a trade war with China, escalating it from...
Food Standards Agency pilots blockchain for supply chain transparency
The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) has completed a blockchain pilot project in a slaughterhouse – the first time that blockchain has been used...
Smart supply chains: JDA acquires AI player Blue Yonder
NEWSBYTE Privately held supply chain and enterprise application provider JDA Software has announced that it is to acquire German retail artificial intelligence (AI) specialist,...
10 steps to a successful business case for IoT
In this must-read guide to building a business case for IoT programmes, Andrew Hobbs reveals how best to identify and act on digital innovation...
Amazon Hub puts a parcel management depot in your home
Receiving items from online retailers can be frustrating when you live in an apartment block. Delivery drivers invariably stop by when you're out, or...
DB Schenker, VeChain develop blockchain app for smart logistics
DB Schenker, the transport and logistics division of German railway company Deutsche Bahn, has co-developed a decentralised application for supplier evaluation using the VeChainThor blockchain platform.
DB...
Internet of Parcels: Unpacking the potential of smart packaging
Thanks to the Internet of Things, parcels can tell you what and where they are. So what are the benefits? Malek Murison talks to...
IoM 2018: How Laing O’Rourke is using digital twins to build...
Andrew Hobbs reports exclusively from our Internet of Manufacturing conference in London, on how Dr Graham Herries, director of Digital Technologies at construction giant...
Maritime IoT adoption higher than other sectors, says Inmarsat
Satellite communications company Inmarsat has commissioned research into Internet of Things (IoT) adoption in the maritime sector, among several others. According to its initial...
80 percent of organisations set to invest in AI, claims report
Fifty-five percent of enterprises are set to make major investments in artificial intelligence (AI) by 2020, according to a new report.
A further 25 percent...
Robots & AI creating more jobs in Asia than they destroy
The belief that robots, automation, and AI simply displace jobs and make humans irrelevant is not borne out in Asia, reports Chris Middleton. However,...